This edition has a portrait of the author by J. B. Yeats facing title-page, the preface is re-written, and the contents re-arranged thus:— _Preface._ (Dated February 24, 1899.) _To Some I have talked with by the fire._ _The Countess Cathleen._ _The Rose._ _The Land of Heart’s Desire._ _Crossways._ _The Wanderings of Oisin._ _Glossary._ 1901. Third Edition, revised. This edition has a new preface, dated January, 1901, and the note in the glossary on _The Countess Cathleen_ is much enlarged. 1897. The Secret Rose: [in red] | By W. B. Yeats, with | Illustrations by J. B. | Yeats. | (Press mark of Lawrence and Bullen) | Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, [in red] | 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, | London, MDCCCXCVII. Cr. 8vo, pp. xii and 268. Cloth. CONTENTS. _Dedication to ‘A.E.’_ _To the Secret Rose._ Originally appeared, under the title _O’Sullivan Rua to the Secret Rose_, in _The Savoy_, September, 1896. _The Binding of the Hair._ Originally appeared in _The Savoy_, January, 1896. _The Wisdom of the King._ Originally appeared, under the title _Wisdom_, in _The New Review_, Sept., 1895. _Where there is Nothing, there is God._ Originally appeared in _The Sketch_, October 21, 1896. _The Crucifixion of the Outcast._ Originally appeared, under the title _A Crucifixion_, in _The National Observer_, March 24, 1894. _Out of the Rose._ Originally appeared in _The National Observer_, May 27, 1893. _The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows._ Originally appeared in _The National Observer_, Aug. 5, 1893. _The Heart of the Spring._ Originally appeared in _The National Observer_, April 15, 1893. _Of Costello the Proud, of Oona the Daughter of Dermott and of the Bitter Tongue._ Originally appeared, under the title _Costello the Proud, Oona MacDermott and the Bitter Tongue_, in _The Pageant_, 1896. _The Book of the Great Dhoul and Hanrahan the Red._ Originally appeared, under the title _The Devil’s Book_, in _The National Observer_, November 26, 1892. _The Twisting of the Rope and Hanrahan the Red._ Originally appeared, under the title _The Twisting of the Rope_, in _The National Observer_, December 24, 1892. _Kathleen the Daughter of Hoolihan and Hanrahan the Red._ Originally appeared, under the title _Kathleen-ny-Houlihan_, in _The National Observer_, Aug. 4, 1894. _The Curse of Hanrahan the Red._ Originally appeared, under the title _The Curse of O’Sullivan the Red upon Old Age_, in _The National Observer_, September 29, 1894. _The Vision of Hanrahan the Red._ Originally appeared, under the title _The Vision of O’Sullivan the Red_, in _The New Review_, April, 1896.